New Dell 1600sc 140gb Hdd

[danmather]

Hi there i am currently configuring my new server and wanted some advice as to how to set up the partitions. I plan to use this server primarily to host exchange and the partitions are currently set up as 5.0gb for the OS - win 2000 server and the rest is currently unformatted - 140gb. Is there a standard best practice for the amount and sizes of partitions? I would like however to have the option of using this as a file server as well in the future if it became necessary. I would apprecitate any comments on this.

Cheers

Dan

 

[xmario2013]

this is virtual disk (size after RAIDed contain like RAID 5 is created) right ? ie. does it have 3 or more physical hard drives ?

no there is no right answer for the right size if you are talking about Exchange (2000 I assumed, cuz EXCG 2003 wont run on windows 2000), it dedpend on how many user, I would give it a good 10-15 GB for exchange to be insatlled on

if you still not sure, you can alway install win2000, set the partition at your best guess, then convert the partition to dynamic disk, you can resize them later without delete the partition

XM

 

[danmather]

Yes it is raid 5, and it is exchange 2000 has 3 73gb scsi drives. I was thinking that maybe i should restrict the C - boot partition to 10gb and then assign 2 60gb partitions, by the way how would i make the partitions dynamic disk?

Thanks for your help

Dan